Smartcat Reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)
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Ivan Smolnikov

65% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Smartcat has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Smartcat employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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85 reviews
2.0
9 Dec 2022

Good engineers + Autocratic top-managers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

* really good engineers; * flexible working hours since whole team works from almost from all the timezones

Cons

* very low salary and a thorny way to raise it; * if you work directly with top managers, be ready to not get any onboarding; * almost none of benefits if you are working remotely (only compensation with learning of English); * extremely thorny way to get an equipment; * the only HR manager for 150+ workers: lack of teambuilding and company non-working meetings, no help with conflicts, intransparent HR processes (how to get a vacation? how to raise a salary? how to get an equipment? how to get any benefits?); * no work-life balance at all; * Eastern-European type of top-management (read it as: pushing, communication on the verge of insults, no safe and polite feedback)

2.0
21 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting and mostly relevant tech stack. - Flexible working hours. - Great possibility to work with different techologies.

Cons

- There is no onboarding at all. - Management often demands for non-payable overtimes. - Almost no possibility to keep work-life balance. - There were no HR management and inner culture. - Because of continuous pushing with new tasks from top management dev teams didn`t have enough possibilities to work with tech debt. - Pretty strange structure of subordination between developers, product managers and top management. - Huge lack of testing of the new features and of existing logic also. - High level of the staff turnover. - There were almost no documentation at all levels. - Corrected statistics (for better impressions) in advertisements and proclamations - sometimes actual and advertised have had differences for almost 10 times. - Sometimes it looked like product managers do not have any actual product requirements from sales team.

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